peppermint tree

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peppermint tree (plural peppermint trees)

  1. (chiefly Australia) Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group.
    • 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:
      Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.
  2. (chiefly Australia) A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy.

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